Kathee fished out my old yearbook and I confirmed that Ken Taylor was indeed a classmate. He was on the football team and the VP of the Student Council. He murdered his wife on 11/11/1984 (the day my daughter was born).
I picked up the book on Amazon for $ .01 with $ 3.99 shipping. The author, Peter Maas, was also the author of The Valachi Papers and Serpico.